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It's all fine and good for John Kerry to utter a fundamental truth about a major driver of climate catastrophe, but it is a useless proclamation without offering a solution.

Have enough tipping points been breached that there are no prescriptions to offer?

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[–] Skipple 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Alarmist headlines frame population declines in certain countries as a "demographic timebomb." Governments respond with pronatalist incentives for large families and/or laws restricting abortion and contraceptives.

Hey, just want to throw out there that discussing abortion rights in the same breath you are talking about global population control probably isn't the greatest of ideas.

[–] AvogadroJones 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Are there certain prescriptive measures surrounding climate catastrophe that should not be discussed? And if so, which ones and why not?

It's well known that a warming climate reduces fertility and birth rate. It's almost as if nature itself provides its own global population control.

[–] Skipple -3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Are there certain prescriptive measures surrounding climate catastrophe that should not be discussed? And if so, which ones and why not?

Yeah I think killing unborn children in the name of climate change is one of those things that we should leave off the table. Yep.

[–] deathmetal 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dunno. Making abortion legal and possibly free worldwide means fewer unwanted humans.

[–] AvogadroJones 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also, regulating any individual's health needs are fraught with complexity and a waste of resources.

[–] deathmetal 2 points 2 years ago

Regulation in general is too far from the locus of actual decision to be very precise. It's better just to keep government and big corps out entirely.

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